Strangely, a couple of days after my return home
from Maurice Couturier's splendid Nabokov Conference in Nice (great
conference/wretched flights), I was catching up on my Times Lit. Supplement of
June 9, 2006 and the first thing to catch my eye (p. 40) was a picture of
David Lodge accompanying a review of his collection of articles entitled
"The Year of Henry James." "Strangely," because I had just heard DL
lecture on the "campus novel" as part of the Nice conference where, inter alia,
he discussed "Pnin" and "Pale Fire." The TLS reviewer, Henry Hitchings,
remarks Lodge's affinity for Nabokov ("a palpable influence", he says).
Stranger still, because I am currently reading Lodge's novel "Author,
Author" re Henry James.
Don Johnson